Tag: Bi-election

Botany’s Mayor since 1981, Ron Hoenig, has been elected member for Heffron in the recent by-election with 58.9% of the primary vote. He led the Greens’ Mehreen Faruqi (23.3%), The Australian Democrat’s Drew Simmons (10.8%) and Fred Niles’ Christian Democratic Party’s Robyn Peebles (7.0%). In two-party preferred terms Mr Hoenig received 70.6% of the votes and Ms Faruqi 29.4%.